JP2018147205A - Information processing device and information processing program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an information processing device facilitating a user to understand a sentence that involves a proper noun in comparison with a case in which a proper noun in the sentence is not converted.SOLUTION: An original sentence receiving module 105 of an information processing device receives a sentence that involves at least a proper noun, and a proper noun extracting module 110 extracts the proper noun from this sentence. A user profile extracting module 125 acquires information on a user that utilizes a sentence processed by this information processing device, and a replacing module 135 replaces the proper noun with another noun using the information on the user.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1

Description

  The present invention relates to an information processing apparatus and an information processing program.

  In Patent Document 1, when the first language is translated into the second language, the meaning of the translated sentence is communicated to the person whose native language is the second language even if the first language includes domestic-specific expressions. In the machine translation device for translating the input first language into the second language and outputting the obtained translation result, the translation generation unit of the translation unit refers to the specific headline storage unit, Determine whether the first language includes a quantity expression, and determine whether the first language includes proper nouns unique to the first language in the first language while referring to the translation dictionary. When a quantity expression and proper noun are included in one sentence in the first language, the translation generation unit adds a supplementary information to the proper noun and creates a translation result while referring to the supplement word dictionary unit. In this way, supplementary information is added to the country-specific proper nouns of the first language, It has been disclosed that to transmit the meaning of the translation a second language to people whose native language.

JP 2004-220416 A

Proper nouns are sometimes used as metaphors to facilitate understanding. In this case, the person who knows the proper noun is easy to understand, but conversely, the person who does not know the proper noun may be difficult to understand.
An object of the present invention is to provide an information processing apparatus and an information processing device program that make it easier for a user to understand a sentence in which a proper noun is used than when a proper noun in a sentence is not converted.

The gist of the present invention for achieving the object lies in the inventions of the following items.
The invention of claim 1 uses an accepting unit that accepts a sentence including at least a proper noun, an obtaining unit that obtains information about a user who uses a sentence processed by the information processing apparatus, and information about the user. , An information processing apparatus having replacement means for replacing the proper noun with another noun.

  The invention according to claim 2 is the information processing apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the replacement means replaces the another noun to be replaced in accordance with a language used by the user.

  In the invention of claim 3, the sentence accepted by the accepting means is described in the first language, the sentence in which the proper noun is replaced is different from the first language, and the user The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising translation means for translating into a second language that is a language to be used.

  According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, the replacement means replaces the proper noun with another noun using storage means that stores the proper noun, the noun and the information about the user in association with each other. It is an information processing apparatus as described in.

  The invention according to claim 5 is characterized in that the replacement means replaces the proper noun with another noun by comparing information on the noun similar to the proper noun and information on the user. Information processing apparatus.

  The invention according to claim 6 is the information processing apparatus according to claim 4 or 5, wherein the replacement means changes the noun to a currently used noun.

  The invention of claim 7 is the information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein the proper noun is a combination of a proper noun and a quantity expression close to the proper noun.

  The invention of claim 8 is a computer that is an information processing device, accepting means for accepting a sentence including at least a proper noun, acquisition means for obtaining information about a user who uses the sentence processed by the information processing apparatus, It is an information processing program for functioning as replacement means for replacing the proper noun with another noun using information on the user.

  According to the information processing apparatus of claim 1, it is easier for the user to understand a sentence in which the proper noun is used than in the case where the proper noun in the sentence is not converted.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the second aspect, it is possible to select a noun according to the language used by the user.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the third aspect, the information can be translated into the language used by the user.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the fourth aspect, the proper noun, the noun, and the information related to the user can be replaced by using the storage means that stores them in association with each other.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the fifth aspect, it is possible to replace the information by comparing the information on the noun similar to the proper noun and the information on the user.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the sixth aspect, the replacement noun can be changed to the noun currently used.

  According to the information processing apparatus of the seventh aspect, a combination of a proper noun and a quantity expression close to the proper noun can be replaced.

  According to the information processing program of claim 8, the sentence in which the proper noun is used becomes easier for the user to understand than when the proper noun in the sentence is not converted.

It is a conceptual module block diagram about the structural example of 1st Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the system configuration example using this Embodiment. It is a flowchart which shows the process example by 1st Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a data structure of a proper noun pair table. It is explanatory drawing which shows the data structure example of a profile table. It is explanatory drawing which shows the process example by 1st Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a data structure of a proper noun pair table with an attribute. It is explanatory drawing which shows the data structure example of a category tree. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a data structure of a proper noun profile table. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of a data structure of a user profile table. It is explanatory drawing which shows the process example by 1st Embodiment. It is a conceptual module block diagram about the structural example of 2nd Embodiment. It is explanatory drawing which shows the process example by 2nd Embodiment. It is a block diagram which shows the hardware structural example of the computer which implement | achieves this Embodiment.

Hereinafter, examples of various preferred embodiments for realizing the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a conceptual module configuration diagram of a configuration example according to the first embodiment.
The module generally refers to components such as software (computer program) and hardware that can be logically separated. Therefore, the module in the present embodiment indicates not only a module in a computer program but also a module in a hardware configuration. Therefore, the present embodiment is a computer program for causing these modules to function (a program for causing a computer to execute each procedure, a program for causing a computer to function as each means, and a function for each computer. This also serves as an explanation of the program and system and method for realizing the above. However, for the sake of explanation, the words “store”, “store”, and equivalents thereof are used. However, when the embodiment is a computer program, these words are stored in a storage device or stored in memory. This means that control is performed so as to be stored in the apparatus. Modules may correspond to functions one-to-one, but in mounting, one module may be configured by one program, or a plurality of modules may be configured by one program, and conversely, one module May be composed of a plurality of programs. The plurality of modules may be executed by one computer, or one module may be executed by a plurality of computers in a distributed or parallel environment. Note that one module may include other modules. Hereinafter, “connection” is used not only for physical connection but also for logical connection (data exchange, instruction, reference relationship between data, etc.). “Predetermined” means that the process is determined before the target process, and not only before the process according to this embodiment starts but also after the process according to this embodiment starts. Also, if it is before the target processing, it is used in accordance with the situation / status at that time or with the intention to be decided according to the status / status up to that point. When there are a plurality of “predetermined values”, they may be different values, or two or more values (of course, including all values) may be the same. In addition, the description of “do B when A” is used to mean “determine whether or not A and do B when A”. However, the case where it is not necessary to determine whether or not A is excluded. In addition, when enumerating things such as “A, B, C”, etc., it is an enumerated list unless otherwise specified, and includes cases where only one of them is selected (for example, only A).
In addition, the system or device is configured by connecting a plurality of computers, hardware, devices, and the like by communication means such as a network (including one-to-one correspondence communication connection), etc., and one computer, hardware, device. The case where it implement | achieves by etc. is also included. “Apparatus” and “system” are used as synonymous terms. Of course, the “system” does not include a social “mechanism” (social system) that is an artificial arrangement.
In addition, when performing a plurality of processes in each module or in each module, the target information is read from the storage device for each process, and the processing result is written to the storage device after performing the processing. is there. Therefore, description of reading from the storage device before processing and writing to the storage device after processing may be omitted. Here, the storage device may include a hard disk, a RAM (Random Access Memory), an external storage medium, a storage device via a communication line, a register in a CPU (Central Processing Unit), and the like.

  The information processing apparatus 100 according to the first embodiment replaces the proper noun in the original sentence 103 with another noun, and as shown in the example of FIG. 1, the original sentence reception module 105, the proper noun extraction module 110, a proper noun storage module 115, a user information reception module 120, a user profile extraction module 125, a profile storage module 130, a replacement module 135, and a replacement data storage module 140.

  The original text reception module 105 is connected to the proper noun extraction module 110 and receives the original text 103. The original sentence receiving module 105 receives an original sentence 103 including at least a proper noun. Accepting the original text 103 is, for example, accepting the original text 103 created using a keyboard or the like, receiving the original text 103 from an external device via a communication line, or a hard disk (those incorporated in the information processing apparatus 100). In addition, reading of the original text 103 stored in a network (including those connected via a network) is included. The language of the original text 103 is not limited to Japanese, English, Chinese, or the like. The original text 103 includes at least a proper noun, and examples of the proper noun include country name, place name, person name, book name, work name such as song title and movie title, group name, building name, brand name, celestial name, etc. There is.

The proper noun storage module 115 is connected to the proper noun extraction module 110. The proper noun storage module 115 stores proper nouns. For example, a dictionary having a combination of words and parts of speech may be used.
The proper noun extraction module 110 is connected to the original text reception module 105, the proper noun storage module 115, and the replacement module 135. The proper noun extraction module 110 uses the information in the proper noun storage module 115 to extract proper nouns from the original sentence 103 received by the original sentence reception module 105. For example, a technique such as morphological analysis may be used.

  The user information reception module 120 is connected to the user profile extraction module 125 and receives user information 118. Accepting the user information 118 means, for example, accepting the user information 118 by the user's operation of the keyboard or the like by ID, ID, password, fingerprint authentication, etc., from the external device via the communication line Receiving information 118, reading user information 118 stored in a hard disk or the like, and the like are included.

The profile storage module 130 is connected to the user profile extraction module 125. The profile storage module 130 stores information about users. “Information about users”, also called profiles, is a list of attribute information about target users. Specific examples include “name, age, gender, date of birth, age, country of origin ( Nationality), place of birth, language, current address, occupation, industry, hobby, etc.
The user profile extraction module 125 is connected to the user information reception module 120, the profile storage module 130, and the replacement module 135. The user profile extraction module 125 acquires information about the user who uses the sentence processed by the information processing apparatus 100 (replacement result 142) from the profile storage module 130. Here, a “user who uses a sentence” is a person who directly or indirectly uses a sentence (a sentence that has been processed according to the present embodiment) obtained by replacing a part of the sentence. The direct user is the reader of the sentence that has been replaced, and the indirect user is the reader of the sentence that has been further processed (translated, etc.).

  The replacement data storage module 140 is connected to the replacement module 135. The replacement data storage module 140 stores a pair of a proper noun that is a replacement source and a noun that is a replacement destination. Moreover, the information regarding a proper noun and the information regarding a noun may be memorize | stored. Examples of information on proper nouns and information on nouns include places where there are buildings indicated by the proper nouns (nouns), uses, types of languages, and the like. Furthermore, the priority according to a user's profile may be provided to the noun which is a replacement destination. The replacement destination noun may be determined according to this priority. Moreover, you may express as a category tree which memorize | stores the proper noun, the noun, and the information regarding a user correspondingly.

The replacement module 135 is connected to the proper noun extraction module 110, the user profile extraction module 125, and the replacement data storage module 140, and outputs a replacement result 142. The replacement module 135 uses the replacement data storage module 140 to replace the proper noun extracted by the proper noun extraction module 110 with another noun using information about the user acquired by the user profile extraction module 125. To do. Here, the “other noun” is a noun that is easy for the user to understand and is a noun along the information (backbone) about the user. The “other noun” is a noun different from the proper noun itself in the target sentence, and of course includes the proper noun. For example, the target sentence has the proper noun “Mt. Fuji” (elevation 3776m), which is replaced with the proper noun “Mountain Forel” (mountain in Greenland, altitude of about 3360m) as “another noun”. It is.
The replacement module 135 may select another noun to be replaced according to the language used by the user. When this selection is made, the proper noun extracted by the proper noun extraction module 110 is replaced with the selected “other noun”.

Further, the replacement module 135 may replace the proper noun with another noun using the replacement data storage module 140 that stores the proper noun, the noun, and the information about the user in association with each other. For example, as described above, when a priority is given to the information in the replacement data storage module 140, a proper noun that gives an impression to the user can be selected.
Further, the replacement module 135 may replace the proper noun with another noun by comparing information on the noun similar to the proper noun and information on the user. For example, the aforementioned category tree may be used. As a result, replacement according to the user's profile becomes possible.

  Further, the replacement module 135 may change the noun to a currently used noun. Here, as the “currently used noun”, for example, the latest glossary may be used by searching the Internet, or when the electronic dictionary is revised, the revised electronic dictionary is used. You may do it. Update nouns (including proper nouns) according to so-called trends. For example, deleting a thing that no longer exists, such as a building, rewriting a name that has been changed, changing to a frequently used noun, and the like. As a result, it is possible to maintain an easy-to-understand state for the user.

  The “proprietary noun” described above may be a combination of a proper noun and a quantity expression close to the proper noun. Here, as “a combination of a proper noun and a quantitative expression close to the proper noun”, (1) when a proper expression is followed by a quantitative expression, (2) there may be a proper expression followed by a proper expression. is there. For example, the former includes “10 Oedo Domes”, and the latter includes “10 Oedo Domes”. In addition to “adjacent” (immediately before or after), there are proper nouns and quantity expressions within a predetermined number of characters (for example, three characters) including. The quantity expression is a character composed of a character string indicating a numerical value (numbers: 1, 2, 3, etc., Chinese numerals: 1, 2, 3, etc., numerical character strings: half, double, etc.) and a unit. The columns may be extracted by pattern matching or the like.

“Combination of proper nouns and quantity expressions” will be described in more detail. The following description is intended to facilitate understanding of the present embodiment.
In particular, the information processing apparatus 100 performs paraphrasing of the quantitative expression according to the user. The technology described in Patent Document 1 helps to understand proper nouns by adding supplemental explanations (supplemental information) to proper nouns, but only the supplementary explanations for proper nouns can only tell the absolute magnitude of numerical values. It is.
Things that are unfamiliar to the user cannot be imagined from the supplementary explanation alone, so they should be replaced with familiar ones. In particular, the “combination of proper nouns and quantitative expressions” is an expression that conveys a relative or emotional (experience that comes from what the author has experienced) quantity based on the knowledge and experience of the author. For example, even if the supplementary explanation that the proper noun “Oedo Dome” is a “baseball stadium” is added, an American who is a popular baseball player and an English who is a less popular baseball player, The size of the baseball field imagined by the reader is different. In addition, if the standard is something that is only in a specific area, such as “the same size as Hokkaido,” the supplementary explanation of “380,000 square km” will not convey surprise.

For example, the information processing apparatus 100 replaces the proper noun of “a combination of proper nouns and quantitative expressions” with another proper noun familiar to the user in accordance with the profile of the user.
As described above, the profile includes, for example, “name, age, gender, date of birth, age, country of origin (nationality), place of birth, language used, current address, occupation, industry, hobby, etc.”.
Examples of the quantity unit to be handled include “area, height, depth, speed, weight, illuminance, era, monetary value, magnification, etc.”.
When replacing proper nouns, it is possible to use proper nouns from different fields that are easy for the user to understand if they can be expressed in the same unit of measure. For example, when paraphrasing the Oedo Dome, which is “three times larger than the Oedo Dome”, if the user is a hobby of soccer, a soccer field of the same scale is used instead of a baseball field.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a system configuration example using the present embodiment.
The information processing apparatus 100, the user terminal 210A, the user terminal 210B, the data storage server 220, and the information processing server 230 are connected to each other via a communication line 290. The communication line 290 may be wireless, wired, or a combination thereof, and may be, for example, the Internet or an intranet as a communication infrastructure. The functions of the information processing apparatus 100, the data storage server 220, and the information processing server 230 may be realized as a cloud service.
For example, the information processing apparatus 100 may receive the original text 103 and return the replacement result 142 from the user terminal 210A.
Further, when the translation apparatus 1200 according to the second embodiment is used instead of the information processing apparatus 100, the original text 103 may be received from the user terminal 210A and the translation result 1252 may be passed to the user terminal 210B.
Further, the functions of the information processing apparatus 100 may be divided into the data storage server 220 and the information processing server 230. The data storage server 220 includes a proper noun storage module 115, a profile storage module 130, and a replacement data storage module 140. The data storage server 220 may manage the proper noun storage module 115, the profile storage module 130, and the replacement data storage module 140 to keep the latest information. The information processing server 230 includes an original text receiving module 105, a proper noun extracting module 110, a user information receiving module 120, a user profile extracting module 125, and a replacement module 135. The information processing server 230 uses the proper noun storage module 115, the profile storage module 130, and the replacement data storage module 140 in the data storage server 220 to replace the proper nouns in the original sentence 103 and generate a replacement result 142. It may be.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating a processing example according to the first exemplary embodiment.
In step S <b> 302, the original text receiving module 105 receives the original text 103.
In step S <b> 304, the proper noun extraction module 110 searches for the proper noun from the original sentence 103 using the proper noun storage module 115.
In step S306, the replacement module 135 determines whether or not there is a proper noun. If there is, the process proceeds to step S308, and otherwise, the process ends (step S399).

In step S308, the replacement module 135 determines whether there is a numerical value + unit in the vicinity of the proper noun, and if there is, proceeds to step S310, otherwise returns to step S304.
In step S <b> 310, the user profile extraction module 125 acquires a user profile from the profile storage module 130.
In step S312, the replacement module 135 determines a replacement word for the proper noun.
In step S314, the replacement module 135 replaces the proper noun.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the data structure of the proper noun pair table 400. The proper noun pair table 400 is stored in the replacement data storage module 140. The proper noun pair table 400 has a Japanese proper noun column 405 and a US proper noun column 410. The Japanese proper noun column 405 stores Japanese proper nouns. The US proper noun column 410 stores US proper nouns (which may include nouns). In the example of FIG. 4, pairs of proper nouns in Japan and corresponding proper nouns in the United States are stored, but pairs in other countries may be stored, and pairs corresponding to profiles are stored. It may be. That is, in the replacement data storage module 140, a plurality of tables (proper noun pair table 400) in which proper nouns and replacement destination nouns are paired are stored. The replacement module 135 may select this table according to the user profile. For example, when the user's profile is US, the proper noun pair table 400 may be selected from the replacement data storage module 140 and used for replacement.
The proper noun storage module 115 may store the proper noun pair table 400. That is, the proper noun pair table 400 (one or both of the Japanese proper noun column 405 and the US proper noun column 410) may be used for extracting proper nouns from the original text 103.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the data structure of the profile table 500. The profile table 500 is stored in the profile storage module 130. The profile table 500 includes a user ID column 505, a name column 510, an age column 515, a gender column 520, a nationality column 525, an address column 530, and a hobby column 535. The user ID column 505 stores information (user ID: IDentification) for uniquely identifying a user in the present embodiment. The name column 510 stores the name of the user. The age column 515 stores the age of the user. The gender column 520 stores the gender of the user. The nationality column 525 stores the nationality of the user. The address column 530 stores the address of the user. The hobby column 535 stores the user's hobbies. The user profile extraction module 125 uses the user ID in the user information 118 to extract a profile such as the gender and nationality of the user.
Then, the replacement module 135 selects the proper noun pair table 400 corresponding to the profile and performs a replacement process.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a processing example according to the first exemplary embodiment. The example of a process in the case of replacing "a combination of a proper noun and the quantity expression close to the proper noun" with a noun is shown.
The process when the user 103 is Mr. Sting 610 will be described as accepting “Nezmyland is the size of 10 Oedo Domes” as the original text 103. It is assumed that the original text 103 is known to be in Japanese. For example, it may be known (predetermined) to accept the Japanese original sentence 103, or may be determined to be Japanese from the character code used in the original sentence 103.

  The proper noun extraction module 110 extracts “ten Oedo Domes” from the original text 103 as “a combination of proper nouns and quantity expressions close to the proper nouns”. For example, proper names “Nezmy Land” and “Oedo Dome” are extracted from the original text 103 using the proper noun storage module 115. Then, the one having a quantity expression before and after the proper noun is selected. Here, since “10 pieces” is a quantity expression, “10 Oedo Domes” is extracted as “a combination of a proper noun and a quantity expression close to the proper noun”.

On the other hand, the profile table 500 of Mr. Sting 610 who is a user is extracted from the profile storage module 130. It turns out that the nationality of Mr. Sting 610 is “USA”. Therefore, the proper noun pair table 400 composed of pairs of Japanese proper nouns and US nouns is selected, and “Ilinidome” corresponding to “Oedo Dome” is extracted. “Oedo Dome” in the original text 103 is replaced with “Irini Dome” to generate “Nezmy Land is the size of 10 Irini Domes” as the replacement result 142.
In addition, you may make it select the thing similar to the attribute (for example, area) of a replacement source as a noun of a replacement destination. Here, “similar” means a case where a difference between the two (here, a difference in area) is within a predetermined value, and includes a case where they are completely coincident. Here, the areas of “Oedo Dome” and “Ilini Dome” are similar categories. Moreover, when it is not similar, you may change quantity expression. That is, the product of the replacement destination attribute (for example, area) and the quantity expression B is similar to the product of the replacement source attribute (for example, area) and the quantity expression A (including “to be equal”). A quantity expression B may be determined. For example, when a building having a half area of “Oedo Dome” is used as a replacement noun, the quantity expression “10” is converted to “20”.

Further, instead of the proper noun pair table 400, an attributed proper noun pair table 700 may be used.
FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the data structure of the attributed proper noun pair table 700. The attributed proper noun pair table 700 stores proper nouns, nouns, and information on users in association with each other, and has a Japanese proper noun column 705, a US proper noun column 710, and an attribute column 715. The Japanese proper noun column 705 stores Japanese proper nouns. The US proper noun column 710 stores US proper nouns. The attribute column 715 stores attributes. That is, the attribute column 715 is added to the proper noun pair table 400. For example, in order to replace “Oedo Dome”, a replacement noun that is an attribute with a matching user profile (here, gender) may be selected. In the example of FIG. 6, since Mr. Sting 610 is a male, “Ilinidome” on the first line of the attributed proper noun pair table 700 is selected as a replacement destination. Note that the attribute column 715 may be used when there are a plurality of replacement destinations corresponding to one replacement source.

Further, the replacement module 135 may perform replacement processing using a category tree.
FIG. 8 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the data structure of a category tree. There are a node (stadium) 804 and a node (event venue) 806 under the node (building) 802, and a node (Edinster Stadium) 808, a node (A stadium) 810, a node ( Oedo Dome) 812, node (Event Edo Dome) 812 under node (Event Venue) 806, node (Tenry Big Site) 814, and node (attribute) 816 under Node (Edinster Stadium) 808 There is a node (attribute) 818 under the node (A stadium) 810, a node (attribute) 820 under the node (Oedo Dome) 812, and a node ( Attribute) 822.
Note that a node (building) 802, a node (stadium) 804, and a node (event venue) 806 that are nodes up to the second level indicate categories, and a node (Edinster Stadium) that is a node in the third level. 808, a node (A stadium) 810, a node (Oedo Dome) 812, and a node (Tenryu Big Site) 814 indicate proper nouns, and a node (attribute) 816, which is a node in the fourth layer, and a node (attribute) Reference numeral 818, a node (attribute) 820, and a node (attribute) 822 indicate a related profile (attribute) of the proper noun.

A pair of a proper noun node (third layer node) and a related profile node (fourth layer node) may be realized as a proper noun profile table 900.
FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of the data structure of the proper noun profile table 900. The proper noun profile table 900 has a proper noun column 905, a country column 910, a usage column 915, and a size column 920. The proper noun column 905 stores proper nouns. The country column 910 stores the country where the thing indicated by the proper noun is located. The usage column 915 stores the usage of the object indicated by the proper noun. The size column 920 stores the size of the object indicated by the proper noun. Other attributes (for example, gender (specifically, often used by men)) may be included.

The replacement module 135 may perform the following processing using the category tree shown in the example of FIG.
(1) A node of the proper noun “Oedo Dome” as a replacement source is searched from the category tree. The attribute corresponding to the node is extracted. Specifically, it is only necessary to extract the fourth layer node connected to the node. Then, the category including the node is extracted. Specifically, a higher-level node connected to the node may be extracted.

(2) Create a search profile from the extracted attributes, categories, and user profiles. For example, the extracted attribute / category and the user profile may be merged to form a search profile. Note that what attributes are to be merged is predetermined.
For example, the first row of the user profile table 1000 shown in FIG. 10A and the node (attribute) 820 are merged to generate the search profile table 1050 shown in FIG. The data structure of the user profile table 1000 is the same as that of the profile table 500 shown in the example of FIG. The search profile table 1050 includes a search profile ID column 1055, a country column 1060, a hobby column 1065, and a size column 1070. The search profile ID column 1055 stores information (search profile ID) for uniquely identifying the search profile in the present embodiment. The country column 1060 stores the country. The hobby column 1065 stores hobbies. The size column 1070 stores the size. In this example, the nationality column 1025 of the user profile table 1000 is adopted as the country column 1060, and both the hobby column 1035 of the user profile table 1000 and the usage column 915 of the proper noun profile table 900 are adopted as the hobby column 1065. As the size column 1070, the size column 920 of the proper noun profile table 900 is adopted.

(3) In the category tree, return to the upper node that includes the node (Oedo Dome) 812, which is the replacement source node, and the attributes of the lower node (node in the fourth layer) and for search The replacement noun (node) may be selected according to the degree of coincidence with the profile table 1050.
Specifically, as indicated by a thick arrow line in the category tree shown in the example of FIG. 11, the node (stadium) 804, which is one level higher than the node (Oedo Dome) 812, is returned to a node ( For nodes (Edinster Stadium) 808 and node (A Stadium) 810), the attributes (node (attribute) 816, node (attribute) 818) are compared with the search profile (search profile table 1050). Here, the nouns in the node (Edinster Stadium) 808 and the node (A stadium) 810 are nouns similar to the node (stadium) 804. This is because it has a node (stadium) 804 which is the same upper node. A noun (a node in the third hierarchy) whose matching degree, which is a result of the comparison, is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold is set as a replacement noun. For example, the degree of coincidence between the node (attribute) 816 and the search profile table 1050 is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value, and “Edinster Stadium” of the node (Edinster Stadium) 808 is selected as a replacement destination noun.
Here, the matching degree may be a ratio of the number of matched items in the attributes (node (attribute) 816, node (attribute) 818) and the search profile (search profile table 1050) to the total number of items. Here, the “number of matched items” specifically indicates the number of matched columns in the search profile table 1050, and the “total number of items” specifically indicates the search profile table 1050. Indicates the total number of columns.
If there is no noun whose degree of matching is equal to or higher than a predetermined threshold, the process returns to the higher node and the lower node is set as the search target. In the example illustrated in FIG. 11, the node (building) 802 that is higher than the node (stadium) 804 is returned to, and the node that is lower than the node (event venue) 806 that is lower than that is also the search target.
And even if it returns to the root | route of a category tree, when there is no noun whose matching degree is more than a predetermined threshold value, substitution is not performed.

<Second Embodiment>
FIG. 12 is a conceptual module configuration diagram of a configuration example according to the second embodiment. In the second embodiment, translation is performed on the processing result (replacement result 142) according to the first embodiment. Since the proper noun is changed to a noun used in the language of the translation destination, a noun suitable for the language of the translation destination can be used by performing a general translation process. That is, even a proper noun that is difficult to translate can be translated because it has been changed in advance to a noun in the translation destination.
In addition, the same code | symbol is attached | subjected to the site | part of the same kind as 1st Embodiment, and the overlapping description is abbreviate | omitted. In the system configuration example shown in FIG. 2, the information processing apparatus 100 may be replaced with the translation apparatus 1200, or the translation apparatus 1200 may be added to the communication line 290 so as to be communicable.

The translation apparatus 1200 includes the information processing apparatus 100 and a user profile extraction module 125.
The information processing apparatus 100 is connected to the translation module 1250, receives the original text 103 and the user information 118, and passes the replacement result 142 to the translation module 1250.
The original text receiving module 105 in the information processing apparatus 100 may receive a text written in the first language (translation source language).
Translation module 1250 is connected to information processing apparatus 100, receives replacement result 142 from information processing apparatus 100, and outputs translation result 1252. The translation module 1250 differs from the first language in the sentence in which the proper noun is replaced by the information processing apparatus 100 (replacement module 135) (the replacement result 142), and the second language used by the user ( Translate to the target language. For the translation process, a known translation process may be used.
When the translation device 1200 translates “proprietary noun” or “combination of proper noun and quantity expression”, it can be converted into a noun suitable for the user of the translation result 1252, and the knowledge and experience of the reader user can be obtained. It is possible to express relative and emotional quantities based on them.

  FIG. 13 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a processing example according to the second exemplary embodiment. 6 corresponds to the example of FIG. 6, and the replacement result 142 is converted into the translation result 1252 (“Nezmeyland is the size of 10 Illini Dome.”) In accordance with the instruction 1310 (“from Japanese to English!”) By Mr. Sting. Translate to

  Note that the hardware configuration of a computer on which the program according to the present embodiment is executed is a general computer as illustrated in FIG. 14, specifically, a personal computer, a computer that can be a server, or the like. That is, as a specific example, the CPU 1401 is used as a processing unit (calculation unit), and the RAM 1402, the ROM 1403, and the HD 1404 are used as storage devices. As the HD 1404, for example, a hard disk or an SSD (Solid State Drive) may be used. A CPU 1401 that executes programs such as an original text receiving module 105, a proper noun extracting module 110, a user information receiving module 120, a user profile extracting module 125, a replacement module 135, a translation module 1250, and a RAM 1402 that stores the programs and data. A ROM 1403 storing a program for starting the computer, an auxiliary storage device (a flash memory or the like) having functions as a proper noun storage module 115, a profile storage module 130, and a replacement data storage module 140. A receiving device 1406 that accepts data based on user operations on a keyboard, mouse, touch screen, microphone, etc., a CRT, and a liquid crystal display An output device 1405 such as a speaker, a communication line interface 1407 for connecting to a communication network such as a network interface card, and, and a bus 1408 for exchanging data by connecting them. A plurality of these computers may be connected to each other via a network.

Among the above-described embodiments, the computer program is a computer program that reads the computer program, which is software, in the hardware configuration system, and the software and hardware resources cooperate with each other. Is realized.
Note that the hardware configuration illustrated in FIG. 14 illustrates one configuration example, and the present embodiment is not limited to the configuration illustrated in FIG. 14, and is a configuration capable of executing the modules described in the present embodiment. I just need it. For example, some modules may be configured with dedicated hardware (for example, Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), etc.), and some modules are in an external system and connected via a communication line In addition, a plurality of systems shown in FIG. 14 may be connected to each other via communication lines so as to cooperate with each other. In particular, in addition to personal computers, portable information communication devices (including mobile phones, smartphones, mobile devices, wearable computers, etc.), information appliances, robots, copiers, fax machines, scanners, printers, multifunction devices (scanners, printers, An image processing apparatus having two or more functions such as a copying machine and a fax machine) may be incorporated.

  In addition, in the comparison processing in the description of the above-described embodiment, “more than”, “less than”, “greater than”, and “less than (less than)” The values may be “larger”, “smaller (less than)”, “more than”, and “less than”, respectively.

The program described above may be provided by being stored in a recording medium, or the program may be provided by communication means. In that case, for example, the above-described program may be regarded as an invention of a “computer-readable recording medium recording the program”.
The “computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded” refers to a computer-readable recording medium on which a program is recorded, which is used for program installation, execution, program distribution, and the like.
The recording medium is, for example, a digital versatile disc (DVD), which is a standard established by the DVD Forum, such as “DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-RAM,” and DVD + RW. Standard “DVD + R, DVD + RW, etc.”, compact disc (CD), read-only memory (CD-ROM), CD recordable (CD-R), CD rewritable (CD-RW), Blu-ray disc ( Blu-ray (registered trademark) Disc), magneto-optical disk (MO), flexible disk (FD), magnetic tape, hard disk, read-only memory (ROM), electrically erasable and rewritable read-only memory (EEPROM (registered trademark)) )), Flash memory, Random access memory (RAM) SD (Secure Digital) memory card and the like.
Then, the whole or a part of the program may be recorded on the recording medium for storage or distribution. Also, by communication, for example, a local area network (LAN), a metropolitan area network (MAN), a wide area network (WAN), a wired network used for the Internet, an intranet, an extranet, or a wireless communication It may be transmitted using a transmission medium such as a network or a combination of these, or may be carried on a carrier wave.
Furthermore, the program may be a part or all of another program, or may be recorded on a recording medium together with a separate program. Moreover, it may be divided and recorded on a plurality of recording media. Further, it may be recorded in any manner as long as it can be restored, such as compression or encryption.

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 ... Information processing apparatus 103 ... Original sentence 105 ... Original sentence reception module 110 ... Proper noun extraction module 115 ... Proper noun storage module 118 ... User information 120 ... User information reception module 125 ... User profile extraction module 130 ... Profile storage module 135 Replacement module 140 Replacement data storage module 142 Replacement result 210 User terminal 220 Data storage server 230 Information processing server 290 Communication line 1200 Translation apparatus 1250 Translation module 1252 Translation result

Claims (8)

A receiving means for receiving a sentence including at least a proper noun;
Obtaining means for obtaining information about a user who uses the sentence processed by the information processing apparatus;
An information processing apparatus comprising: replacement means for replacing the proper noun with another noun using information about the user. The replacement means replaces the another noun to be replaced according to the language used by the user.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The sentence accepted by the accepting means is written in the first language,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 2, further comprising a translation unit that translates the sentence in which the proper noun is replaced into a second language that is different from the first language and that is used by the user. . The replacement means replaces the proper noun with another noun using storage means that stores the proper noun, the noun and the information about the user in association with each other.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The replacement means replaces the proper noun with another noun by comparing information on the noun similar to the proper noun and information on the user.
The information processing apparatus according to claim 1. The replacement means changes the noun to a currently used noun,
The information processing apparatus according to claim 4 or 5. The proper noun is a combination of a proper noun and a quantitative expression close to the proper noun,
The information processing apparatus according to any one of claims 1 to 6. A computer that is an information processing device
A receiving means for receiving a sentence including at least a proper noun;
Obtaining means for obtaining information relating to a user who uses the sentence processed by the information processing apparatus;
An information processing program for functioning as replacement means for replacing the proper noun with another noun using information on the user.

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